Miley Cyrus: Stop Promoting Drugs

Miley — I know you’ve said that you’re not a role model, but honestly — you’re being irresponsible, showing off a “drugs” bracelet on Instagram.

Miley Cyrus — you take pleasure in shocking, but your latest antic — modeling a “drugs” bracelet on Instagram today, March 17 — crosses the line into dangerous territory.

Miley Cyrus Needs To Stop Promoting Drug Use

You may think it’s funny to Instagram a photo of two bracelets — one saying “drugs” and the other spelling out “Mary Jane” to your 9.9 million Instagram followers, but it’s anything but humorous. You have millions of young fans. Many are teens and some are still tweens. Whether you believe that you aren’t a role model is immaterial. Your fans still admire and follow what you say and do.

You’ve long been a public fan of marijuana, wearing a marijuana-patterned bodysuit on stage on your Bangerz tour, and you’ve made all kinds of comments in the last couple of years about “Mary Jane.” “I think alcohol is way more dangerous than marijuana—people can be mad at me for saying that, but I don’t care. I’ve seen a lot of people spiral down with alcohol, but I’ve never seen that happen with weed,” you told Rolling Stone in Sept. 2013.

Then, when you accepted the award for Best Video at the European Music Awards (EMAs) on Nov. 10, 2013, you pulled a joint out of your purse on stage and began smoking it. Later, you explained that you thought it was really “funny.”

Take Our Poll “I just did it mostly because I knew the fans in Amsterdam would love it and they started going crazy when I did it,” you told UK’s Capital FM in a radio interview on Nov. 13, 2013.

Miley Cyrus: Drug Use Is Not Funny

But illegal drug use is not a laughing matter. Almost 24 million Americans, 12 and over, used an illicit drug or abused a prescription medication every month in 2012, according to the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health, conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

About 22 million Americans are addicts! Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teens — and your fans are teens! Addiction is a health and life-threatening disease which destroys lives and families.

Miley, you may be able to handle your own marijuana use — keeping it recreational and within your own control. But many others are not so lucky. They are born with an addictive gene and when they try drugs — especially when young — they spiral out of control.

That’s why — role model or not — you need to stop promoting drugs for fun, and to start behaving responsibly. You’re 21 and mature enough to see beyond the thrill of just trying to get a rise out of people.

You have so much singing and songwriting talent. You don’t need to seek attention by posting silly “drugs” bracelet pictures on Instagram.

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Clint Geiger

Posted at 11:46 PM on March 23, 2014

I am so tired of people telling celebrities what they need to stop doing. Miley smoking a joint on stage or wearing a marijuana bodysuit is not “promoting” drug use. She is not telling anyone that they should smoke weed with her, this is her body and her life and if she wants to smoke weed so be it. If parents don’t like that then perhaps they should start parenting and start watching their kids more closely. It is all to easy to blame celebrities for screwing up kids when in reality kids are going to do what they want and it is a parents job to step in and inform them before they make these decisions for themselves. The problem with America is that people want to blame everyone but themselves for their children’s choices. Grow up, grow some balls, and deal with your kids yourselves!

i REALLY DO agree with you 100%, buddy…. if parents dont like it, they should watch their kids more closely… Miley DOES NOT promote drugs so why can’t people and parents like that just grow up… I say if Miley wants to do something I SERIOUSLY, PERSONALLY, and LITERALLY will back Miley Cyrus up 100% because I smoke once in awhile, not much but I do smoke though and drink too. my family does not understand how MUCH it would mean to me if I got to meet Miley Cyrus and I REALLY DO want to meet her but my family doesn’t get how IMPORTANT it is…. meeting Miley Cyrus would mean the world to me….

buddy… if you have Twitter, you ABSOLUTELY can follow me if you want…. @clement_brandon

i am going to say something respectfully here and if you guys don’t like it or think it was disrespectful then i don’t care but what matter most is that i am speaking from the heart. miley cyrus, what can i honestly say, i am proud of her and always and forever will be because she doesn’t let things like people smack talking her down and if you do trash talk about miley i will care because nobody smack talks about her to me… let’s just say i ABSOLUTELY 100% Adore Miley… if i was a song writer i would serious write a song and it would be called “I ALWAYS and FOREVER Will Adore You, Miley,” because i really do… i am not always a goody two shoe either…. i wouldn’t mind miley twerking on me. in fact i would let her do that all night.. the RESPECTFUL part of this was all of it…

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Ant-drugs

Posted at 1:12 PM on April 4, 2014

Shut up, and take another hit of whatever it is you are smoking! You sound loaded and making no sense!

I’m sorry but that’s ridiculous. Of course she’s promoting them! Hey I have nothing against a little MJ at a party or having a good time with friends but kids are watching her glorifying it and the party culture. Because it’s from someone they admire…they’re going to want to do it! She may not be saying ‘oh hey try this stuff now it’ll make your life amazing!’ but as a wealthy and successful woman who has many impressionable minds listening to her…it’s not responsible to do what she does. By all means…smoke the stuff…drink all you want. But wearing an mj suit, bracelet and lighting up on stage saying that it’s ‘funny’ IS promoting drugs. Kids see that and think: Wow she’s doing so well in life, she thinks drugs are fun and cool I think I’ll try them too!

Miley says that unlike Bieber, she has never done anything illegal in California. NOT the truth. Peyote and Molly are illegal and she says she has used both. When people do things that are bad for society, they deserve harsh judgement. Pushing drugs to youth is abusive and dangerous. Miley has turned herself into self glorified gutter scum. Her suckerfish parents and supposed friends should remind her that she has no idea what she is smoking when she tokes off someone’s else’s J. Its pathetically ironic that Miley tries to get attention by showing off her crack.

Stop bringing Liam Hemsworth into this regarding her behaviour. She is totally accountable for her own behaviour. By the way I’d say he’s counting his lucky stars he’s not with this train wreck that’s bound to happen.

Ah you stole my line! I was going to say that too! She will be the poster child of ant- drugs after her overdose death!

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musicforever

Posted at 5:36 PM on March 17, 2014

Okay, they should stop promoting drugs, but they must know what they are doing, even people themselves must think through whether they are going to use it or not that decides miley anyway not . people know yet that she does

Personally I think people need to stop posting all of her flaws. This is getting old. It used to be funny but now its getting dumb. So what? She grew up from being Hannah Montana and decided she wanted to smoke and party. Big deal. Do you think its going to affect her career? Get real. If anybody really has paid attention, it seems that the more bad stuff about Miley Cyrus that gets publicized, the more her albums sell. What does that say? Has anybody really just taken in any serious thought about any of this? There have been people before her who have done the exact same things. They were childhood stars that grew up, they got tattooes, they acted out, they did drugs, they stayed drunker than who knows what, they wasted their money on stuff that made no sense, and the list goes on and on. In the end, some probably most of these people turned out alright years later down the road, ended up being super great parents, ETC. What is my point? My point is that while yes Miley Cyrus is acting this way now, let’s please keep in mind what we are all dealing with here; and that’s a female who is making a transition from girlhood to womanhood. What she does now, she will probably look back at it later and regret it. Britney Spears and Madonna both did similar things and they turned out all right in the end. I bet everybody before all of us mocked them too when they were making their mistakes but look at these women now. You wouldn’t even know that years ago Britney was acting slutty, shaved her head, ETC. It still surprises little children who are in elementary and middle school when they hear about the stuff that Britney did years ago. So lets all just try to be a bit more nice unto this young female and do the best we can to respect her a bit. Yes what she is doing is bad but lets at least find ways to help guide her in the right path. You know you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. :D

Yes and her twerking zombie fans defending her is getting really old!!

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Lori

Posted at 4:34 PM on March 17, 2014

Umm ok so whats the problem, for generations artist from rap groups rapped about smoking weed drinking and sipping syrup. Just cuz its miley cyrus people wanna make it a big deal.. Go worry bout ur own life if its a big problem.

She should be able to do whatever she wants to do. We all sin differently, and mind you marijuana is legal in most states. And concerning her fans and followers they have the choice to stop ridding her campaign., and if you do not want your kids to listen or watch her remember you pay the cable bill, so you have all control over that.

I think HollywoodLife and, in general, people are usually way too hard on Miley. This is one instance that I agree with HollywoodLife. I generally don’t care what Miley wears on stage or how she acts there because I know it’s a performance. I wish she wouldn’t use drugs or get so many tattoos but that’s HER life. The promotion of drug use is the thing that I agree that she really needs to stop. It’s one thing to use it as a prop in a show; it’s quite another to try to get other kids to use it.

miley, i know i shouldn’t say this because i dont want a restraining order from you against me i have TONS of respect for you in every way. i NEVER EVER in my life would disrespect you because to me, you still are inspiration, my hero, and my role model and i would feel awfully horrible if something happened to you.. i am going to say this in the most RESPECT as possible… i know this is not going to mean much to you but like i said you still and always and forever will be important to my life and i don’t want to see you hurting yourself… unlike some people i actually do care about you, miley because ever since when you were Hannah Montana, i wanted to meet you in person, miley… i am NOT pleading but respectful saying that it still is on top of my bucket list to meet you. drugs, you dont want to get into that thing because to me, it is like a never-ending circle that keep itself rotating and every time you take drugs, its gets bigger and bigger until it has you trapped with its death decisions making…. now this probably won’t matter much to you but Miley, i DO CARE about you and i would feel awfully terrible if something happened to you because unlike some people, i really do CARE about you and still like you….. i am NOT being mean, disrespectful, rude, and/or anything like that.. i just CARE about you, Miley :) :) :)

Heartbreak comes in many behavioral patterns and Miley is no exception to it. I don’t think Liam Hemsworth had ever felt the chemistry when they were together. The big slap in the face was when he was kissing another woman the day after their break-up.